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Would you favor starting with pembrolizumab or chemotherapy for a metastatic MSI-high pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma?

Would your recommendation change in a patient having pain from disease and you wanted a quick response?
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What is your preferred first line treatment for MSI-High PDAC?

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Medical Oncology · Mayo Clinic, Rochester
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This is a great question. MSI-H status in PDAC is rare, about 1-2% of all PDAC (Luchini et al., PMID 32350089). Marabelle and colleagues published one of the initial studies using pembrolizumab in MSI-H solid tumors showing a response rate of 18.2% among PDAC (22 patients) with a median duration of ...

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